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Article: Moshe Safdie architect.(Interview)
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- Queen's Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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We all want our cities to be beautiful, but so much gets in the way: red tape, institutional inertia, hostility to new ideas, and--always--the bottom line. But one of the world's great architectural visionaries has long argued that we have a duty to create buildings that are beautiful, functional, and nothing less than a tribute to our civilization. Canadian Moshe Safdie first amazed the world at Montreal's Expo 67 with his extraordinary Habitat project. Today, he continues to prove his case for revolutionary architecture--from Singapore to Vancouver to Punjab. Here he discusses with Eleanor Wachtel his life in architecture, and his blueprint for a brave new century of ...